E/C.12/DOM/CO/4 Cultural rights 66. The Committee notes with concern that the measures adopted by the State party have not done enough to promote respect for the cultural diversity of Afrodescendent communities or to disseminate information about that culture (art. 15). 67. The Committee recommends that the State party take all necessary steps to strengthen the protection of cultural rights and respect for cultural diversity by fostering an enabling environment for the efforts of Afrodescendent communities to preserve, develop, express and share their identity, history, culture, traditions and customs. D. Other recommendations 68. The Committee encourages the State party to ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 69. The Committee encourages the State party to ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure and the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. 70. The Committee recommends that the State party take full account of its obligations under the Covenant and ensure the full enjoyment of Covenant rights in the course of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the national level while drawing upon international assistance and cooperation as necessary. The State party should take meaningful steps to facilitate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by establishing independent oversight mechanisms to track progress towards the Goals and by treating the beneficiaries of public programmes as persons who hold rights and who demand that they be allowed to exercise them. The adoption of measures for the achievement of the Goals that are in keeping with the principles of participation, accountability and non-discrimination should ensure that no one is excluded from the process. 71. The Committee recommends that the State party promote the systematic collection of data and, based on those data, the compilation and utilization of statistical human rights indicators, including indicators for economic, social and cultural rights. In that connection, it refers the State party to the conceptual and methodological framework for human rights indicators developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HRI/MC/2008/3). The Committee requests the State party to include comparative annual statistics in its next periodic report on the exercise of each of the Covenant rights, disaggregated by age, sex, ethnic origin, urban or rural place of residence and other relevant criteria. 72. The Committee requests the State party to disseminate these concluding observations widely at all levels of society, particularly among public officials, judicial authorities, legislators, lawyers and civil society organizations, and to provide the Committee with information on the steps taken to apply these recommendations in its next periodic report. It also encourages the State party to engage civil society organizations in the discussions to be held at the national level regarding the actions to be taken to give effect to these concluding observations and in those to be held prior to the submission of its next periodic report. 12 GE.16-18306